Merging the Greek words for air, aero, and sound, ton, Aeroton continues Schweder’s use of inflatables to make spaces that are also sound instruments. Conceived of as a time-based labyrinth, ways through this space open and close as fabric columns lift and fall. Working with German composer B. Norbert Wuertz, the electromagnetic fields of the electric fans causing this to happen are digitized into a sonic layer using a custom built synthesizer. Faux fur entices occupants’s fingers to touch, caress, and lay upon surfaces that lift and lower their bodies slowly as they wait for passageways to open.
Commissioned for Let’s Fly by The Balloon Museum.
